The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forch Poems)
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this riveras a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain.She has ...
Hair Poems (3954 Poems)
To Get A Man (Hector MacNeill Poems)
This warld is a lottery, as ilk ane may ken;There are prizes for women as weel as for men:But as ...
Farewell To Cuba (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
ADIEU, fair isle! I love thy bowers, I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;The cool pomegranate's scarlet flowers Look brighter in their jetty ...
Anecdote For Fathers (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
By the late W. W. (of H.M. Inland Revenue Service).And is it so? Can Folly stalkAnd aim her unrespecting dartsIn ...
The Return Of The Goddess (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
Not as in youth, with steps outspeeding morn, And cheeks all bright from rapture of the way, But in strange mood, half ...
Arizona Poems: Mexican Quarter (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
By an alley lined with tumble-down shacks, And street-lamps askew, half-sputtering, Feebly glimmering on gutters choked with filth, and dogs Scratching their mangy ...
A Dreamer Of Dreams (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
He lived beyond men, and so stoodAdmitted to the brotherhoodOf beauty:—dreams, with which he trodCompanioned like some sylvan god.And oft ...
The Fourth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Psaumis of Camarina, on his Victory in the Chariot Race. ARGUMENT. The Poet, after an invocation to Jupiter, extols ...
Our Martrys (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I AM sitting alone and weary,By the hearth of my darkened room,And the low wind's miserere,Makes sadder the midnight gloom."There's ...
Lightning-Bugs (Hattie Howard Poems)
Around my vine-wreathed portico, At evening, there's a perfect glow Of little lights a-flashing-- As if the stellar bodies had From super-heat grown hyper-mad, And ...
Donald And Flora. A Ballad, On The Death Of A Friend Killed At The Battle Of Saratoga (Hector MacNeill Poems)
When many hearts were gay,Careless of aught but play,Poor Flora slipt away Sadd'ning to Mora.Loose flow'd her yellow hair,Quick heav'd her ...
Motherhood (May Swenson Poems)
She sat on a shelf,her breasts two bellieson her poked-out belly,on which the navel lookedlike a sucked-in mouth-her knees bent ...
“Knocking” (Harriet Beecher Stowe Poems)
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock."Knocking, knocking, ever knocking?Who is there?'T is a pilgrim, strange and kingly,Never such ...
Tim (Jared Barhite Poems)
We remember well when a schoolboy, When pliant in mind and limb, We had for a boon companion, A bright youth whose name ...
Hattie House (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "Lily Dale"Come all kind friends, wherever you may be, Come listen to what I say,It's of a little girl ...
Requiescat (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The roses mourn for her who sleeps Within the tomb; For her each lily-flower weeps Dew and perfume. In each neglected flower-bed Each blossom droops ...
A Grandson in Hoticeberg (Margaret Danner Poems)
A grandson isnotthe wing-sprouting cherubthat I, as doting grandmotherhave persisted in seeing and showing.A grandson is a hot ice berg.that cannot retain or disdain,with ...
The Unseen City (Marietta Holley Poems)
Not far away does that bright city stand, 'Tis but the mist o'er its dividing stream,That wraps the glory of its ...
Last Words Of Major Wheat (Hermine Poems)
"Bury me on the field, boys," and away to the glorious fight,You will come again this way, boys, in your ...
A Ballad Of Santa Claus (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
For the St. Nicholas Society of New YorkAmong the earliest saints of old, before the first Hegira,I find the one ...
The Golden Wedding (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
A half a century of time, The mingled pain and blissThat make the history of life Between that day and this;Two lives ...
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (Roald Dahl Poems)
As soon as Wolf began to feelThat he would like a decent meal,He went and knocked on Grandma's door.When Grandma ...
Home Again (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Far down the lane A window pane Gleams 'mid the trees through night and rain. The weeds are dense Through which a fence Of pickets ...
Art (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
1What precious thing are you making fastIn all these silken lines?And where and to whom will it go at last?Such ...
The Sparrow’s Nest (Mary Botham Howitt Poems)
Nay, only look what I have found!A Sparrow's nest upon the ground;A Sparrow's nest as you may see,Blown out of ...
The Fisherman’s Wife (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The wind bloweth wildly; she stands on the shore;She shudders to hear it, and will evermore.The rush of the waves, ...
Distraught (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
A BalladAll decked with fineryShe stands, in purple dressed;A satin ribbon coyIs hidden in her breast.And playfully there glowSweet roses ...
The Rowing-Song Of King Atli (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
Row, row, through the darkling sea—One king's daughter is waiting me:Her hair is unbound till I come to land,And gather ...
Raftery’s Praise Of Mary Hynes (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
Going to Mass by the will of God, the day came wet and the wind rose;I met Mary Hynes at ...
Morning And Night (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
FROM "THE TRIUMPH OF MUSIC." ... Fresh from bathing in orient fountains, In wells of rock water and snow, Comes the Dawn with ...